Reports: CBA deadline extended to Friday

I thought I would provide an update on the NFL labor situation with all the information out there the past few hours.

Several media outlets are reporting that because of the positive movement in negotiations between the players and the owners, the league and the NFLPA have struck a deal on extending the moment at which the current CBA expires.

So this basically means it will be Groundhog Day tomorrow, with the CBA expiring at 9 p.m. Pacific time on Friday.

However, the extra day does provide time for the two sides to either work toward a new agreement, or hammer out details of a longer extension. Either way, it's a positive sign that things could come to a resolution sooner rather than later.

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Gregg Bell joined The News Tribune in July 2014. Bell had been the director of writing for the University of Washington's athletic department for four years. He was the senior national sports writer in Seattle for The Associated Press from 2005-10, covering the Seahawks in their first Super Bowl season and beyond. He's also been The Sacramento Bee's beat writer on the Oakland Athletics and Raiders. The native of Steubenville, Ohio, is a 1993 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., and a 2000 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.